Next up: a variation of the leopard skin guitars we did for Tracii Guns to sell at LA Guns shows on their last tour. This one a “white” leopard for Jack Frost (another heavy metal guitarist, one of the original founders of seven witches). He wanted it black on the back and white on the front, so kind of like a black and white cookie. we started with a black guitar and had an auto body shop paint the front half after masking it. then engraved.
i don’t think i’ve seen any videos of her playing it, just sharing pics when she got it. it’s a heavy metal singer in minneapolis, i think. she bought one of the tracii guns leopard skin guitars and then wanted this one when it was done.
These are great! I especially love the white leopard. When you engraved that one, were you removing the white auto body paint and letting the original black paint show through, or was it burning into the wood beneath?
into the wood. then, while still masked, we daub a watered down black acrylic paint in with a rag to “blacken” the engrave completely. it would be really difficult to consistently get through the one layer of paint and keep the black layer clean.
